YouTube-Austin

YouTube

Creating an Account

          When you first go to www.YouTube.com to register you have to click on “Create Account” and then it takes you to another page to “create a Google account” and on that page you have to fill out a questionnaire like your name, birthday, gender, phone number, and the email name and password you want to use. In all, I thought the creating an account phase was really easy and understandable, the create an account button is really easy to spot once you’re on the site so you’re not looking all over for it and the questions are questions anyone should know, so it was a very simple process.

  

Help/ Getting started

   Once signed up you can go to the bottom of the page and click the “Help” button which takes you to the “YouTube Help” page then it has a bunch of categories for different problems or things that users may need help with. But, under the Getting Started tab it has these sub categories; YouTube Homepage, YouTube for Businesses, YouTube Analytics, YouTube 3D Video, YouTube Channels, YouTube Video Manager, YouTube and Google+. I clicked on YouTube Homepage first and it gave me a huge picture of what the Homepage looks like and gives a brief description and tells you that your homepage is organized by channels. On the side of the page it had other categories under the YouTube Homepage like managing your subscriptions, Logging in/out experience, and subscription feed. The Tabs pretty much just gives a brief description for each of the subcategories too.  For example, logging out it said how to locate the button to Sign in and out and showed a picture of it. The second tab I looked at was the YouTube for Businesses tab this tab was interesting to me because I have been on YouTube for a long time now and I’ve seen how YouTube has grown from just watching simple videos to becoming an advertisement center because every video on YouTube has like a 30 second advertisement for some business or some new movie/song coming out. This tab practically just told people how to make an account for business and how to advertise your business all over YouTube. I thought the YouTube for Business page was very neat and understandable and I liked how it showed you can advertise your business in different ways like if you wanted more views or if you wanted more sales then you would take a different routes of advertising and it explained both of them clearly in my eyes.

I thought YouTube was a very simple site it has a lot of information and tabs on it, but anyone could figure it out if they just doodled around on the site for a couple minutes. It also has a very well organized help page that can answer just about any question or problem you have with YouTube. In all YouTube is a very nice site to share videos with the world.